FREE Motorcycle Training - Upper Hutt 22/5/11

**Drew** · 27th April 2011, 20:11

Originally Posted by Roadsafe Nelson

Oh..

The courses are extremely valuable for ANYone to do, whether you are requiring licence time reduction or not.. the skills/information learned will help you be a LOT more aware of yourself & other road users, increasing your safety on the roads, regardless of what vehicle you drive!!

The more you know.. the better it gets!!

I don't doubt it, I doubt I'll fork out money for what I already learned crushing my leg between my bike and a car that failed to give way though.

**riffer** · 27th April 2011, 20:15

Originally Posted by Drew

I don't doubt it, I doubt I'll fork out money for what I already learned crushing my leg between my bike and a car that failed to give way though.

You know what Drew, this is one of the reasons I was keen to attend a training course for experienced riders and I put on my entry form that I was keen to learn strategies for dealing when things were going incredibly pear-shaped.

Dealing with cars that don't give way is unfortunately part of motorcycling and IMO one of the things that training could help immensely with.

Good on NZTA for recognising that experienced riders want to know more about this kind of stuff and cheers Upper Hutt City Council for recognising that there are a hell of a lot of motorcyclists in their area.

I'd like to see more and more of this kind of stuff ocurring around the country, not just in the Hutt Valley.

**Roadsafe Nelson** · 27th April 2011, 20:26

Originally Posted by riffer

You know what Drew, this is one of the reasons I was keen to attend a training course for experienced riders and I put on my entry form that I was keen to learn strategies for dealing when things were going incredibly pear-shaped.

Dealing with cars that don't give way is unfortunately part of motorcycling and IMO one of the things that training could help immensely with.

Absolutely

Originally Posted by riffer

Good on NZTA for recognising that experienced riders want to know more about this kind of stuff and cheers Upper Hutt City Council for recognising that there are a hell of a lot of motorcyclists in their area.

I'd like to see more and more of this kind of stuff ocurring around the country, not just in the Hutt Valley.

The Council courses are subsidised by ACC!

Roadsafe are contracted by the Wellington Regional Council, as well as the Nelson, Tasman, & Marlborough City/District Councils. We have been running subsidised training courses down here for several months now, & this process has recently started in the Wellington region.. so you will be seeing LOTS more of these courses over the next couple of years, all around these regions!!!! Roadsafe also run training courses in several other areas as well.

Keep an eye on the "Course Dates" page on Roadsafe's website..

http://www.roadsafe.co.nz/coursedates/coursedates.htm